M&A performance was crimped in October as market volatility caused most spreads to widen. This presented an opportunity to put cash to work by adding to existing positions at lower prices to earn greater returns.

The leaps made by the stock market indices Dow Jones (DJI), S&P 500 (S&P), Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQ) and Russell 2000 (RUT) on October 15 and 16, seems more like technical reactions due their fall to the 200 d